Buckle.



JOHN A. WILSON, or MOREHEAD, KANSAS.

BUCKLE.

/ Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907'.

Application filed October 23,1966. Serial No. 340,235.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. INILSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Morehead, in the county of Neosho and State of Kansas, haveinvented. certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invent-ion relates to buckles and more particularly to that classadapted to be used in connection with harness, and my object is toprovide a buckle of this class whereby the trace of the harness may bequickly adjusted'without removing the same from the buckle.

A further object is to provide means for securing the buckle to thehanies of the harness.

Other objects and advantages will be hereinafter referred to and moreparticularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which are made a part of this application,Figure 1 is an elevation of my improved buckle showing the same inposition upon a trace and secured to the hame-tug. Fig. 2 is an edgeview thereof, and, Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view on an enlargedscale as seen from line 33 Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings in which similar reference numerals designatecorresponding parts throughout the several views, 1 indicates a tug suchas is commonly used to attach the harness traces to the hames, and 2indicates the trace which is preferably constructed of strips of leatherand stitched together.

Disposed over the end of the trace 2 is a body 3 of my improved bucklewhich is provided throughout its length with a plurality of cross bars4, 5, 6, and 7, some of which are provided with prongs 8 which areadapted to extend through openings 9 in the trace and prevent casuallongitudinal movement of the trace through the buckle. An elongated slot10 is formed between the cross bars 6 and 7 through which is disposed alink 11, said link comprising a bar 12 and parallel arms 13, said armsbeing extended at right angles to the bar 12 and integral with the endsthereof. The free ends of the arms 13 are provided with heads 14 throughwhich are formed registering bores 15 through V which takes a lockingpin 16 the lower end of said pin being provided with a lug 17, and inorder to enable the lug to be inserted through the bores 15 I haveprovided registering recesses 18 in the bores so that when the lockingpin is turned until the lug 17 is in registration with the recesses 18,the locking pin may be readily removed from the heads 14.

The object of the locking pin is to secure the buckle to the hame tugand to this end the tug 1 is provided with a loop 19 through which takesthe locking pin 16, so that when the locking pin is directed through thebores in the heads 14 and the loop 19, the tug and buckle will besecurely locked together.

In placing the trace in the buckle, the end of the trace is first.introduced into the opening between the cross bars 4 and 5 thence overthe cross bars 5 and 6 through the link 11 and over the cross bar 7 andafter the tug is properly adjusted the prongs 8 upon the cross bars 5and 7 are inserted through registering openings 9 in the trace, afterwhich the bores 15 are brought into registration with the loop 19 andthe locking pin 16 inserted through the openings and the loop.

T 0 hold the locking pin 16 against casual rotation I have provided alever 20 at the upper end of the locking pin to the outer end of whichis secured a depending spring latch 21 which is adapted to extend intoengagement with a depression 22 in the lower face of the upper arm 13and it will be readily seen that when the latch is in engagement withthe depression the locking pin 16 will be held against casual rotationand the lug 17 held out of registration with the recesses 18 and thebores 15, when, however, it is desired to remove the locking pin fromthe link 11, the spring latch 21 is moved out of engagement with thedepression 22, and the pin 16 rotated until the lug 17 is inregistration with the recesses 18.

The arms 13 are curved at their intersection with the bar 12, so thatthe bar can be passed through the elongated slot 1.0 and over the trace2 and by so arranging the arms, the outer ends thereof will besubstantially in line with the buckle and tug when a load is beingpulled thereby. A further object in having the arms curved is to preventthe bar 12 from directing an inward pull upon the trace which wouldresult in pulling the trace through the slot 10.

In operation when it is desired to shorten or lengthen the trace, thepin 16 is removed from the heads 14 and the link swung inward until thebar 12 is directed out of engage ment with the face of the trace whenthe trace can be readily removed from engagement with the prongs 8 andthe buckle adjusted to any desired point upon the trac and after theadjustment has been. completed and the prongs again passed throughregistering openings in the trace, the heads 14 are again swung over theloop in the tug 1 and the pin 16 inserted through the heads and loopafter which the pin is rotated until the lug 17 thereon is moved out ofengagement with the recesses in the heads andthe latch directed intoengagement with the depression 22. It will also be seen that when thelink is thus brought into engagement with the tug 1 thebar 12 will holdthe trace securely in engagement with the prongs 8.

It will now be seen that I have provided a buckle which can be quicklyand easily inserted upon or removed from the trace and one that can bereadily attached to the hame tug and it will further be seen that itwill not be necessary to unduly bend the trace in order to insert thesame into the buckle or adjust the same after it has once been broughtinto engagement with the buckle thereby obviating the danger of breakingthe stitches employed in holding the parts of the trace together.

hat i claim is:

1. A buckle of the class described com; prising a body portion having aplurality of cross bars, means on said crossbars to engage and. hold atrace, a link at one end of said body and adapted to be passed through aslot in said body and engage the trace, said link having registeringopenings in the free end thereof, a pin adapted to be passed throughsaid openings and. into engagement with a hame tug and means on said.pin to lock the same against casual rotation.

2. A buckle of the class described comprising the combination with abody portion having cross bars, and prongs on some of said cross barsadapted to engage and hold atrace of a link one end of which. is adaptedto be passed through a slot in said body and into engagement with thetrace, said link having registering openings at its free end, a lockingpin adapted to be passed. through said openings, a lever at the upperend of said locking pin and a lug at the lower end thereof, and meanscarried by said lever adapted to engage the link and prevent casualrotation of the locking pin.

3. A buckle of the class described, comprising the combination with abody portion having a slot at one end thereof of a link one end of whichis adapted to be passed through the slot, the free ends of said linkhaving registering bores therein and recesses in said bores, a pin forsaid bores, a lug on the lower end of said locking pin, a lever at theupper end of said locking pin and means carried by said lever to engagethe link and secure the locking pin against casual rotation.

a. A buckle of the class described comprising t-he combination with abody having a slot at one end thereof; of a link, one end of which iscurved and adapted to be passed through the slot, a locking pin adaptedto enter bores in the free end of said link, means at the upper end ofsaid locking pin to hold the same against casual rotation and additionalmeans at the lower end of said pin to prevent casual removal of the pinfrom the bore.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. WILSON. Witnesses:

GEO. W. hiCh'IAHILL, R. F. RronAR'r,

E. s. h'lCDONALD. l

